VIDEO: Donald Powis didn’t plan to be at Merrick State Park near Fountain City, Wisconsin on Friday afternoon. The 69-year-old social worker was planning to do a little fishing, but roughly 300 miles away from the shores along Fountain City Bay. The avid angler was preparing to try and reel in some brown trout. “I had a case in Monroe County and I was going to go east,” Powis said. “The fellas called me and said that they caught just one fish in two days. So, forget it.” The alternative for Powis was Merrick State Park, about a 45-minute drive from his home in Whitehall, Wisconsin, to catch some sunfish. “Ever since I was a small child, we used to go there,” he said. “You fish off the bank in the summer and then in the winter, you cross the ice and pick up some sunfish. “We’ve been going there for years. It’s just one of those things, I guess.”